JAY-Z’s attorney has reportedly attempted to throw out the rape lawsuit against the music mogul.
The rapper’s lawyer Alex Spiro is allegedly gearing up to argue the bombshell case is full of legal holes.
Jay-Z, 55, is named in an anonymous lawsuit alleging he took turns to sexually attack a 13-year-old with fellow rapper Sean “Diddy” Combs.
An unnamed female celebrity was also said to have been in the room at an MTV VMAs after-party in New York on September 7, 2000.
Spiro is allegedly getting ready to quash the claims put against Jay-Z, whose real name is Shawn Carter, by an unnamed Alabama woman referred to as Jane Doe in court documents, according to TMZ.
The attorney will reportedly push that the statute the accuser is suing under was not enacted until after the alleged incident, according to court documents seen by TMZ.
Spiro has claimed the statute came into effect in December 2000, which would have been three months after the alleged rape.
The music mogul’s attorney will reportedly put forward another argument – even if this legal statute does apply.
This bombshell sexual lawsuit was originally filed in New York in October but refiled in December to include Jay-Z.
Both rappers have denied the allegations put against them.
In the suit, Jane Doe tried to gain entry to the VMAs in New York City without a ticket on September 7, 2000.
Approaching limo drivers outside of the event, one of them claimed to be working for Diddy and invited her to an afterparty.
Doe claimed she was later driven to a house where the party was being held and was raped by both rappers.
Spiro has reportedly hit back at these claims and said the alleged location of these attacks could not have been in New York City.
The attorney, therefore will argue that even if the statute applied, it would only cover incidents that happened in New York City in an attempt to have this lawsuit dismissed.
He claimed Jane Doe’s description of a large home with a “gated U-shaped driveway” about 20 minutes away in the lawsuit could not have been within New York City.
Spiro will reportedly argue that homes like this – if it existed in 2000 – would have been outside the city’s bounds, per TMZ.
This comes after Jay-Z was slammed by a judge for a “relentless” courtroom plot to unmask the accuser, The Sun has previously reported.
Jay-Z has made several attempts to force the accuser to be publicly identified or quash the case.
Judge Analisa Torres however granted the woman anonymity for the next stage of proceedings.
The judge also slammed Spiro for “relentless filing of combative motions”.
She described them as filled with “inflammatory language and ad hominem attacks”, and a “waste of judicial resources”.
